A dispatch from Chicago, says that three men were shot on "a boat used for
the vilest purposes." We never knew that the newspapers were printed on
boats there in Chicago.
THE ADVENT PREACHER AND THE BALLOON.
There occasionally occurs an accident in this world that will make a
person laugh though the laughing may border on the sacrilegious. For
instance, there is not a Christian but will smile at the ignorance of the
Advent preacher up in Jackson county who, when he saw the balloon of King,
the balloonist, going through the air, thought it was the second coming of
Christ, and got down on his knees and shouted to King, who was throwing
out a sand bag, while his companion was opening a bottle of export beer,
"O, Jesus, do not pass me by."
[Illustration: "DO NOT PASS ME BY!"]
And yet it is wrong to laugh at the poor man, who took an advertising
agent for a Chicago clothing store for the Savior, who he supposed was
making his second farewell tour. The minister had been preaching the
second coming of Christ until he looked for him every minute. He would
have been as apt to think, living as he did in the back woods, that a
fellow riding a bicycle, with his hair and legs parted in the middle,
along the country road, was the object of his search.
We should pity the poor man for his ignorance, we who believe that when
Christ _does_ come he will come in the old-fashioned way, and not in a
palace car, or straddle of the basket of a balloon.
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